A good hard working Polish friend of mine received an emergency phone call and had to leave work because his son was apparently seriously ill. The child (under 2 years) was dragging his leg, couldn't stand or walk properly. His mother had taken him to see a GP, and was advised to go to hospital straight away, that morning. Whilst they were in the hospital, they were seen by one doctor, then another.... then another, they took blood, did all sorts of tests etc, including taking X-ray's. After hours and hours they were still none the wiser and just a waste of time. It was said, that there was not much more that they could do as they couldn't identify what was wrong. By this time it was around 8-9 pm at night, when they were hungry, tired, and the child was crying to go home. They were told, that there isn't much more that the hospital could do, and so decided to go home. They signed the necessary paperwork and went home. About 11 pm, knock, knock at the door, its the Police ! They were being accused of abusing their child ! - after lots of upset, questions etc, the police went satisfied, that there was nothing wrong or untoward. The whole house was woken up, The neighbours finding out what had happened, His wife, very distressed, scared that her kids could be taken away, scared to leave them at nursery, compounded by the problem that her English isn't too brilliant and cant't defend herself properly. A day or so later, the symptoms disappeared, it seams that it was just a virus after all ! Now his wife is worried that they are now on some sort of list with Social Services, can't sleep at night and the neighbours think that they have hurt their child. Every knock at the door, his wife panics. What should he do ? Thanks.